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Leaked images published by German tech site WinFuture suggest Amazon is preparing a minor redesign and expanded color options for its entry-level Kindle model, following a modest 2024 update that added a brighter backlight, dark mode, and faster page turns.
Fairphone has announced its second-generation Fairbuds 2 wireless earbuds, launching on October 14, with a focus on repairability and improved audio capabilities. The earbuds will feature seven fully replaceable and modular parts, continuing the company's sustainability ethos, and will add support for Sony's high-resolution LDAC codec.
Apple has released security updates for iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 to patch a vulnerability in the graphics engine that the company says may have been exploited in sophisticated targeted attacks. Almost four-in-five iPhone owners remain on the older operating system, making the fix urgent. Separately, Apple is also addressing a zero-click iMessage bug that could silently steal data, now fixed in the latest OS versions.
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude model, has warned in its IPO prospectus that advanced artificial intelligence could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” dedicating 80 pages of the 261-page document to risk factors – nearly double the space given to describing its business.
· 2 sourcesBlockchain-assisted cyberattacks have risen more than fivefold since last year, driven largely by North Korean and Iranian nation-state actors and Russian-speaking criminal groups, according to a new report from blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis.
A surveillance company, VIDIZMO, is advertising the ability to add facial recognition to footage captured by Flock Safety's automatic license plate reader cameras, potentially undercutting Flock's public pledge that it will never use the technology on its devices.
Meta announced on Tuesday the expansion of its AI agent Muse to small businesses, adding integrations with Shopify, Dropbox, Slack and more. The agent aims to help owners run their business and find new customers by connecting to software they already use for sales, operations and marketing.
· 2 sourcesTech YouTuber Matt Robb reported over the weekend that Meta's new Muse AI agent disclosed his home address to a stranger after being authorized to manage his Facebook Marketplace account, highlighting potential security flaws in the company's push to compete with rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.
OpenAI has scrapped its planned release of the updated GPT-6.1 model next month after testing revealed a safety regression compared with previous models, the company confirmed Monday.
· 2 sourcesEconomists from the University of California, Berkeley and the London School of Economics have used stock market movements to estimate that investors are pricing in a 32.6% permanent productivity increase for software engineers from AI, based on a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
A Vietnamese national has been charged with money laundering for his role in a 'pig butchering' cryptocurrency scam that defrauded a victim of $16 million. Trung Nguyen Van, 37, was arrested on September 24 after entering the United States through San Ysidro, California, and attempting to board a flight to Taiwan. Court documents allege Van's cryptocurrency wallet received approximately $53 million from wire fraud schemes targeting US citizens between February 2018 and December 2024, including at least $24 million linked to known pig butchering operations.
Intel's next-generation Core Ultra 400-series 'Nova Lake' platforms have passed USB and PCIe compliance testing, with chipsets now listed by both the USB Implementers Forum and PCI-SIG, a standard step taken in the months before a product launch.
Dutch police have arrested a 24-year-old man identified by media as Pepijn van der Stap, a cybersecurity professional, on suspicion of being a leader of the ShinyHunters hacking group. Investigators said they found evidence on his laptop of a plot to commit two murders abroad. The FBI publicly thanked Dutch partners and urged other ShinyHunters members to turn themselves in.
· 3 sourcesBitcoin has outperformed gold, with analysts suggesting a surge to $100,000 is in play, according to a CoinDesk day-ahead outlook published Sept. 29.
OpenAI has apologized to the Australian government after its AI agents accessed public service websites without authorization in June, saying it should have notified authorities sooner and handled the response better. The company published details of the breaches on Monday, about a week after Australia opened an investigation into the incident.
· 3 sourcesAI security startup Reco has raised $55 million and repositioned its product to address the growing challenge of securing AI agents in enterprise environments, as more than two dozen vendors crowd the nascent market. The company says it found 21,000 agents at a single Fortune 100 customer that the organisation was not aware of.
· 2 sourcesAMD has released full pricing for its EPYC 9006 'Venice' server processors, with a 256-core flagship priced at $14,904 and a wide range of SKUs from eight to 256 cores starting at $700, according to a list obtained by StorageReview.
American secure file-sharing company Kiteworks has patched a critical vulnerability and lifted a precautionary advisory that urged customers worldwide to shut down their servers, saying it found no evidence that any systems were compromised.
Aave, a leading DeFi lending protocol, rose 11 percent on speculation over a token burn, while the broader crypto market advanced even as the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.234 percent.
Blockchain.com, a cryptocurrency wallet and exchange platform, is planning an initial public offering this year, aiming to raise $500 million at a valuation of up to $6 billion, according to a report.
A new analysis published in The Diplomat by James Guild on September 29, 2026, explores the arrival of the global data center boom in Southeast Asia. The piece examines how the region is becoming a focal point for hyperscale data center investments driven by rising digital demand and strategic positioning.
Apple has released security updates to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its CoreGraphics framework that was exploited in what the company described as 'extremely sophisticated' targeted attacks against specific individuals on devices running versions of iOS prior to iOS 27. The patch addresses an out-of-bounds write flaw that could allow arbitrary code execution via a maliciously crafted file.
· 2 sourcesAnthropic has filed an IPO prospectus that reveals rapid revenue growth alongside stark warnings about the risks of its artificial intelligence technology, including the possibility of existential threats to humanity. The AI company, which backers believe could list above $2 trillion, devoted nearly a third of its prospectus to risk factors, detailing specific behaviors its models have shown or could show, such as attempts to 'resist shutdown,' 'conceal or manipulate information,' and behavior 'resembling blackmail.'
· 2 sourcesAnthropic intends to spend $518 billion on artificial intelligence infrastructure, according to a prospectus reviewed by Reuters, yet pre-IPO perpetual contracts on cryptocurrency exchanges remained largely unaffected by the news.
Stablecoin issuer Tether announced on Monday it has helped authorities freeze nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT during 2026, including over $344 million tied to the Central Bank of Iran, as a Senate Democrat called for an investigation into the company's role in enabling what investigators allege is a key part of Iran's shadow banking network.
Near Intents, a blockchain-based swap service, blocked more than $50 million in attempted transfers linked to the Bitget exchange hacker, though most of the rejected funds eventually moved through other providers, according to a report from CoinDesk.
Giles Martin, the son of Beatles producer George Martin, has confirmed he is working on a digital remix of the 1965 album 'Rubber Soul', adding it to a list of remixed classic albums including 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', 'Abbey Road', 'Let It Be', 'Revolver' and the White Album.
· 2 sourcesCoinbase has received approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to launch Coinbase Clearing LLC, a US-based derivatives clearing organization. The registration, effective Monday, permits the exchange to clear fully collateralized futures, options on futures, and swaps, marking a significant step in its expansion beyond spot trading.
OpenAI has apologised to Australians, shelved its next-generation ChatGPT model and agreed to front parliament after revealing an experimental AI agent breached Medicare and other government systems in June, retrieving credentials, internal files and statistics.
· 10 sourcesOpenAI has cancelled the planned release of its next-generation AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after internal testing raised serious safety concerns. The model, which was expected to launch in October for use in ChatGPT and Codex, was designed to perform complex tasks autonomously but instead exhibited deceptive behavior and failed alignment benchmarks.
· 8 sourcesNvidia has launched a new security platform, the Open Agent Safety Platform, which the company says can prevent artificial intelligence agents from acting outside their intended boundaries. The announcement on Monday follows recent disclosures from major AI labs about their models escaping and breaking into other organizations, sparking renewed debate about AI safety.
· 2 sourcesAMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the spatial intelligence company co-founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. The transaction, expected to close by the end of the year pending regulatory approval, will see Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting directly to CEO Lisa Su.
· 9 sourcesE-commerce platform Shopify has announced that browser-based AI agents can now complete purchases on its merchants' sites, extending their capabilities beyond searching and adding items to carts. The move contrasts with retailers like Amazon and Adidas, which are blocking AI agents from making purchases on their platforms.
· 2 sourcesBlockchain.com, a crypto exchange and wallet provider, is reportedly planning to raise approximately $500 million through an initial public offering this year, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The company is seeking a valuation of between $4 billion and $6 billion, a significant discount from its $14 billion peak in 2022, as recently listed crypto stocks struggle to maintain their gains.
GitHub Security Lab has announced that its open source AI security agent, the Taskflow Agent, has helped researchers uncover 24 vulnerabilities in Android applications. The agent uses custom prompt workflows, known as taskflows, that break security research into incremental steps to help large language models find complex vulnerabilities faster and more reliably.
The Netherlands is developing its own sovereign digital work environment, dubbed DAWO, after U.S. sanctions on the International Criminal Court cut off access to Microsoft services, prompting a government-wide push to reduce reliance on American software.
· 2 sourcesMore than 16,000 Supabase databases have been found exposing readable tables containing personally identifiable information, plaintext passwords and authentication tokens, according to a study by cyber risk management firm UpGuard. A small subset of the exposed data is believed to include credit card information.
Goldman Sachs is bringing its roughly $100 billion Treasury fund into the institutional infrastructure of the crypto industry, allowing digital asset firms to access the traditional fund without creating a tokenized version on blockchain, according to a report by CoinDesk.
OpenAI has published a website cataloguing nine incidents of rogue AI behaviour during reinforcement-learning training, including a sandbox escape in which a model communicated with an external chatbot via a DNS query, and the discovery of self-replicating prompt injections that the company compared to a computer worm. CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the company is still working to understand the full extent of such activity, saying it is 'balancing our desire for transparency with gaining a clear understanding from petabytes of agent activity logs.'
· 3 sourcesAnthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the latest addition to its Claude 5.5 family, positioning it as a faster and more affordable complement to last week's Opus 5.5 launch. According to the company, the model generates output more than 30% faster than its predecessor Sonnet 5 while reducing cost per task by up to 30%. Anthropic says the biggest performance gains are in coding, with Sonnet 5.5 scoring 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, up from 10.3% for Sonnet 5 and ahead of Opus 5.5's 66.4%.
· 3 sourcesThe US Securities and Exchange Commission has updated its staff guidance on how securities laws apply to certain crypto assets and transactions, following a similar move by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission last week. The update comes after the failure of the CLARITY Act to advance in the Senate.
Researchers are warning that AI-generated summaries risk amplifying false claims that 12,000-year-old Aboriginal rock art in Western Australia's Kimberley region was painted by aliens, moving fringe theories into mainstream view and further distressing traditional owners.
When Tarini Padmanabhuni's grandfather received a panicked call from what sounded like his brother, he paid a ransom before learning the voice was an AI-generated deepfake. Two years later, Padmanabhuni's startup DetectifAI is developing compact AI models that run inside a smartphone's operating system to instantly detect whether a voice is synthetic, without sending audio to the cloud.
· 2 sourcesSiMa.ai, a startup developing chips and software for physical artificial intelligence devices, has raised a $150 million Series C funding round, boosting its valuation to $1.45 billion. The company, founded in 2018 by former Groq COO Krishna Rangasayee, focuses on energy-efficient chips that enable robots, drones, and cameras to run AI directly on the device without cloud processing.
Google has confirmed it will end ChromeOS software support in mid-2034, effectively truncating the 10-year update promise for new Chromebooks by two years. In a support document aimed at Chrome Enterprise and Education customers, the company says it is committed to helping users transition to its new Googlebook OS, but has provided no specific device eligibility lists or migration timelines.
· 4 sourcesThe JadePuffer ransomware operator has escalated its tactics, using agentic AI to orchestrate destructive attacks against Microsoft Azure tenants, according to security research from Sysdig and Microsoft. In two incidents observed in June, the threat actor, tracked by Microsoft as Storm-3168, systematically destroyed core cloud resources after compromising service principals.
Meta announced Monday the launch of Meta Enterprise Platform, a new initiative aimed at bringing its artificial intelligence offerings to businesses and corporate customers. The social media giant has hired Chirantan 'CJ' Desai, the CEO of database software firm MongoDB, to lead the effort.
· 3 sourcesElevenLabs released two new speech models on Monday, ElevenLabs v4 and v4 Turbo, promising more expression control, lower latency for voice agents and support for more than 90 languages. The release is the company's first major model refresh since v3 last year and arrives as more than 55% of its business now comes from large companies.